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DETAOHABLE CAR SEAT ARM. No 383,726. Patented May 29, 1888.

NI 'lED STATES PATENT A OFF CE.

JAMES A. GOHEN, OF HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

DETACHABLE CAR-SEAT ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,726, dated May 29, 1888.

Application filed November 7, 1887. Serial No. 254,537.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. GOHEN, of Huntington, in the county of Oabell and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Car- Seat Arms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a face view of my improved carseat-supporting arm in position for use. Fig. 2 is a detail View of the same. Fig. 3 is a de tail view of the keeper and end of arm 0. Fig. 4 is a detail central view of the keeper.

My invention relates to improvements in the supports for the movable backs of car or other seats; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the back-supports, whereby the back may be shifted to opposite sides of the seat or readily or wholly removed therefrom, when desired, for cleaning, repairing,

or for other purposes, without the manipulation of screws or other attaching devices, as will be clearly understood from the following description and claim, when taken in connection with the drawings.

In the drawings, A designates a car-seat having the usual wooden or metallic end pieces or arm-rests, B, to the center of which is pivoted the keeper for pivotally securing the inner end of the back-supporting metallic arm 0.

The. keeper E is in general form similar to the ordinary pivot-pieces of ear-seat arms, consisting of a base portion, 6, having open ings for the passage of retaining-screws, and a central outstanding lug, F, which has an enlarged flattened head, f, as shown. The keeper E is secured on end piece, 13, previous to the engagement therewith of arm 0, and its lug F is flattened on its sides and rounded at top and bottom, or oblong in cross-section, as

shown, for a purpose hereinafter described.

The parts of keeper E are cast integral. The arm 0 is of T shape, having its cross-heads secured by screws or other suitable fastenings to the ends of back D, as usual. The shank c of arm 0 has its inner end pivotally engaged (No model.)

in the lug F of keeper E, as hereinafter described, so that the back D can be turned to either side of the seat, as usual.

The end of shank c of arm 0 has a slot, 9, formed therein correspondingin diameter with the lesser thickness of lug F, and extending inward in the axial line of the shank a short distance and ending in a circular opening, G, corresponding in diameter to the greater thickness of lug F. The shank c and its slot 9 stand at right angles to back D, to which arm 0 is secured, and the lug F is secured to part B, so that its greatest diameter shall stand at right angles to the seat A, as shown. On each side of keeper E, at proper distances therefrom, are the holders or supportingcatches H for arms 0, as usual, which catches may be the ordinary lock-catches to prevent casual turning of the backs of the seats.

The arm 0 being secured to back D, as described, and the keeper E to the end piece of the seat, an arm at each end of the back, and corresponding keeper at each end of the seat, the back is hung on the seat by holding it vertically above the latter, with its arms 0 downward, so that the slots 9 will pass the narrow diameter of lugs F and permit the latter to rest in openings G, as shown in Fig. 2, the heads f preventing the lateral escape of the arms from said lugs. The back is then turned down to its proper position, causing the slots 9 to turn opposite the greatest diameter of lugs F, and consequently effectually prevent the withdrawal or disengaging of the arms from said lug while the latter is down on either side, as is evident.

It will be observed that by simply forming slots 9 in the ends of the ordinary back-sup porting arms of car-seats now in use, and by filing the vertical sides of the pivots thereof I can convert them to the present invention, imparting all its advantages thereto.

Having described my invention, I claim-- The combination of the end pieces, B, of a car-seat and the keepers E, secured thereon, each consisting of a base portion, e, lug F, integral with said base, having reduced sides, and a head, f, with the back D, the arms 0, secured thereto and having shanks c, perforated at their free ends by openings G, and ICC) having axial slots g, communicating with said In testimonythatI claim the foregoingas my openings and extending from the openings to own I afifix my signature in presence of two the extremities of the arms, the opening G'corwitnesses. responding in diameter to the greatest width J AMES A. GOHEN. of lug F,'and the slot 9 to the lesser diameter 'Witnesses:

of said lug, all constructed and arranged sub- G. G. RIOKETTS,

stantially as and for the purpose described. GEO. G. DAVIS. 

